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Les Mots bleus

Words in Blue
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Les Mots bleus
Directed by Alain Corneau
Produced by Laurent Pétin
Michèle Pétin
Screenplay by Alain Corneau
Based on Leur histoire
by Dominique Mainard
Starring Sylvie Testud
Sergi López
Music by Christophe
Cinematography Yves Angelo
Edited by Thierry Derocles
Distributed by ARP Sélection
Release date
  • 16 February 2005 (2005-02-16) (Berlinale)
  • 23 March 2005 (2005-03-23) (France)
Running time
115 minutes
Country France
Language French
French Sign Language
Catalan
Budget €5 million
Box office $661,951

Words in Blue (original title: Les Mots bleus) is a 2005 French drama film adapted from the novel Leur histoire by French author Dominique Mainard. The film was adapted and directed by Alain Corneau.

Clara, (Sylvie Testud), works in a birdshop. She is concerned about her deaf-mute daughter Anna, (Camille Gauthier), whom she is bringing up on her own. She has never spoken a single word. Clara herself is illiterate. Ever since her grandmother Baba, whom she adored, had been the victim of an attack when she was reading her a story, she has always refused to learn to read and write. Now that the silence of her daughter Anna is causing her to be bullied by her peers, Clara feels obliged to withdraw her from her school, and to enrol her in a school for the deaf-mute, run by Vincent, (Sergi López). Vincent, the principal, suggests giving his new pupil particular classes to teach her Sign Language, and so facilitate Anna's integration.


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